title: What is different in children?
abstract: The bones of infants and children are soft and so they tend to buckle and bend rather than frankly break. In addition, to accommodate growth, epiphyseal plates exist. These areas represent weak zones in the long bones and shearing/twisting forces cause fractures. All of this results in fractures different than what one sees in adults and this communication deals with how to identify these fractures, how to appreciate the more subtle of these fractures, and how to utilize comparative views for the subtle cases.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas.
authors.forename: Leonard E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Swischuk
mesh_terms: D001846:Bone Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006132:Growth Plate / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn